Growing Up

            The environment in which one grows up is, most of the time, what shapes the person you're going to be. But in a few instances, there are people that defy all these odds and grow to be the opposite--Jeannette being a prime example. Throughout the week we have spoken of the growth of Jeannette and her hunger. When we first spoke about the motif of hunger, I only viewed it in its most vague and simple form--literal hunger. But throughout our class discussion, we opened up to realize that she has hunger for more things then just food to eat. This opened up my eyes to view all the instances that Jeannette went through in order to tame her hunger.

    

             

            One aspect of Jeannette's hunger that was well above any of the others was her hunger for success and how she was going to achieve it by going to New York, "I told Lori about my escape fund, the seventy-five dollars" (Walls, 223). As Jeannette makes a new, successful life in New York, it conveys that no matter where you are born or into what family, you can always achieve great things; Jeannette sets a prime example for anyone who doesn't believe so.